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Would you be willing to pay a new $12-a-month city “street maintenance” fee? That’s the question being put to voters in a Portland Bureau of Transportation poll. City Commissioner Steve Novick w
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Who thinks the Portland Aerial Tram is part of a
regional transportation strategy? Metro does. As first reported by Metro
News, planners have found the tram—ferrying passengers from South
Wate
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Multnomah County corrections deputies earlier this month voted narrowly not to endorse Sheriff Dan Staton for re-election. The vote, first reported at wweek.com, marks a major shift for the Multnomah
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Mayor Charlie Hales and City Commissioner Steve Novick have
been shopping a plan to increase transportation taxes and fees, asking
residents for their top priorities in polls and forums. But the p
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Multnomah County Circuit Judge Eric Bloch on March 3 moved the proposed $200 million Hyatt Hotel adjacent to the Oregon Convention Center one large step closer to reality. Bloch blocked downtown hotel
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A House bill to reform the payment of awards in class action lawsuits
survived stiff opposition in the Senate Judiciary Committee and will
now proceed to the Senate floor for a vote. House Bill 41
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The Portland Association of Teachers and Portland Public Schools averted a strike
with a tentative contract agreement Feb. 18, but the Portland Parents
Coalition—which earlier filed a complaint
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Radio startup XRAY.FM is on the air, to a degree. The nonprofit station raised more than $100,000 in donations last month to combine progressive talk hosts Carl Wolfson and Thom Hartmann
with indie-
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Anybody want to buy a sidewalk? City Commissioner Steve Novick has been sniffing out new taxes to fund the Portland Bureau of Transportation (Murmurs, WW, Dec. 4, 2013). He now knows what Portlanders
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Oregon Sen. Lee Beyer (D-Springfield), chairman of
the Senate Business and Transportation Committee, made headlines last
week when he told a Washington state legislator in an email that the Columb
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